John Stanfield is a finance and accounting executive with over 18 years of experience. Prior to co-founding Aequum Capital, he was the CFO of a Chicago-based alternative middle-market lender where he built the accounting, HR, compliance, risk management, treasury, administrative and investor relations functions from the ground up in addition to serving on the credit committee. Prior to that, he founded Stanfield & Associates, LLC, a boutique CPA firm focused on the private equity sponsors and family offices (which was sold to Sikich, LLP in 2016). Before that, he held positions at Ernst & Young LLP and RSM USA LLP. John has a Bachelor’s and Master of Science in Taxation degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Master of Science in Accountancy from DePaul University in Chicago. John is a licensed CPA.